Wealth, fixed-income and investment-platform fintechs
Three-way audit
Company A
WatchWintWealth
Fintech / Online Bond Platform / Fixed Income
Consolidated revenue (+159% YoY)
₹45 Cr
Consolidated PAT (loss narrowed 61%)
-₹8 Cr
Company B
WatchDezerv
Wealth Management / Fintech
FY2025 consolidated revenue
₹65.62 Cr
FY2025 consolidated net loss
−₹111.98 Cr
Company C
WatchStable Money
Fintech / Fixed-Income Distribution Platform
Reported revenue
Rs 104.4 Cr
Net loss
Rs 44.9 Cr
The 30-Second Summary
Three Indian fintechs in broadly the wealth, fixed-income and investment-platform category. Same FY2025 audit period. Three structurally different audit shapes.
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WintWealth (FourDegreeWater Capital Pvt Ltd): consolidated revenue ₹44.54 Cr (+159%); PAT -₹8.15 Cr; operating cash absorption ₹176 Cr broadly mirrored a ₹172 Cr loan-book expansion at the consolidated level. Net worth flipped from -₹117 Cr to +₹98 Cr on ~₹223 Cr fresh equity.
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Dezerv (Dezerv Investments Pvt Ltd): consolidated revenue ₹65.62 Cr (2.5x FY24); PAT -₹112 Cr; employee benefits ₹111 Cr ran 1.7x revenue. For Dezerv, payroll is not just overhead; it is part of the advisory-delivery model. Three-entity group (parent + brokerage + distribution).
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Stable Money: consolidated reported revenue ₹104 Cr; standalone platform retained ₹3.58 Cr; gap is the gross-vs-net recognition treatment. Net loss ₹45 Cr; runway ~15 months.
The three entities cannot be compared on a single cost-to-income ratio because each recognises revenue on a structurally different basis. The headline single fact in each audit is different.
What Each Audit Captures
WintWealth
FourDegreeWater Capital Private Limited (CIN U66301MH2020PTC338284), Maharashtra-incorporated 2020.
OBPP-plus-lending group. Consolidated audit includes the corporate-bond distribution platform plus an embedded lending entity (consolidated loans grew from ₹77 Cr to ₹248 Cr in FY25). Revenue is fee-and-interest mixed at consolidated level.
What sits outside
The bonds themselves; investors hold the bonds directly. The lending counterparty risk on borrowers; the audit consolidates the loans on balance sheet but does not surface stage-1/2/3 disclosure at summary level.
Dezerv
Dezerv Investments Private Limited (CIN U65999MH2021PTC358833), Maharashtra-incorporated 2021.
HNI-focused wealth-advisory group. Three entities consolidate: Dezerv Investments (parent, advisory and platform), Dezerv Securities (brokerage), Dezerv Distribution (trail commissions). Per the company's article, the parent carries most of the consolidated loss; subsidiaries appear near breakeven.
What sits outside
The client portfolios themselves; AUM is custodied externally. The audit reports the platform's fee revenue and operating cost base.
Stable Money
Stable Money (CIN U74999KA2022PTC167343), Karnataka-incorporated 2022.
Fixed-income distribution platform (FDs primarily, plus bonds and debt MFs). Consolidated reported revenue includes gross transaction throughput; standalone platform retains a sub-1% implied ratio on reported gross revenue (₹3.58 Cr of ₹104 Cr).
What sits outside
The fixed deposits themselves; placed with partner banks/NBFCs. The platform does not carry credit risk on the deposits; the audit reports the platform's commissions and operating costs.
The core insight
Three different platform structures inside broadly the same wealth/fixed-income category. Each audit records something materially different from the other two; the headline single fact in each filing is structurally distinct.
Three Different Headline Facts
WintWealth: the ₹176 Cr operating cash absorption broadly mirrored a ₹172 Cr loan-book expansion
Operating Cash Flow (Consolidated, FY25)
-₹176.12 Cr
22 times the reported PAT loss
Consolidated loan book (closing balance)
₹77 → ₹248 Cr
loan book expanded ₹171.75 Cr; broadly mirrors the OCF absorption (closing-stock movement, not disbursement flow)
Dezerv: employee benefits ran 1.7x revenue
Employee Benefits Expense
₹111 Cr
against consolidated revenue of ₹65.62 Cr
Cost composition note
₹111 + ₹30 Cr
₹111 Cr employee + ₹30 Cr marketing = ₹141 Cr against ₹66 Cr revenue, before depreciation. For Dezerv, payroll is not just overhead; it is part of the advisory-delivery model (senior bankers and relationship managers are the product).
Stable Money: ₹3.58 Cr retained of ₹104 Cr reported
Reported revenue (consolidated)
₹104.4 Cr
reflects gross transaction throughput, not retained income
Standalone platform retained
~₹3.58 Cr
implied retained-income ratio ~0.34% on reported gross revenue; cost base running ~14x retained revenue
Each entity recognises revenue differently
A cross-audit cost-to-income ratio for the three would compare three differently-constructed revenue lines:
- WintWealth's ₹45 Cr consolidated revenue includes platform fees plus interest income earned by the lending entity inside the group. The lending side has its own cost-of-funds and provisioning structure.
- Dezerv's ₹66 Cr consolidated revenue is fee-based: advisory fees, trail commissions on distributed products, brokerage commissions from the broker subsidiary. The mix between recurring AUM-linked fees and one-time transaction fees is not surfaced in the audit's summary.
- Stable Money's ₹104 Cr consolidated revenue appears to reflect gross transaction throughput; the platform standalone records ₹3.58 Cr of retained fee. The gap of ~₹100 Cr is what passes through the platform to partner banks/NBFCs as the deposit principal/interest flow.
Applying a single cost-to-income ratio across all three would mix three recognition treatments and produce a misleading comparison. The audits should be read on the metric most relevant to each: WintWealth on cash-absorption-vs-loan-book; Dezerv on employee-cost-vs-revenue; Stable Money on retained-take-rate-and-cost-base.
The category-level point: there is no clean cross-audit ratio for these three. The forensic value sits in understanding what each line item structurally represents.
Three Different Capital Stories
WintWealth
Equity-fuelled balance-sheet turnaround.
Consolidated net worth flipped from -₹117 Cr (FY24) to +₹98 Cr (FY25), implying approximately ₹223 Cr of fresh equity raised through securities premium. Borrowings expanded 83% to ₹109 Cr alongside the equity round. Total assets nearly doubled to ₹373 Cr; the bulk of the new capital deployed into the loan book.
What sits outside
₹223 Cr implied fresh equity / borrowings +83% to ₹109 Cr / loan book grew ₹172 Cr
Dezerv
Funding the advisory-led scale-up.
Revenue grew 2.5x year-on-year, but the cost base scaled faster: employee benefits ₹111 Cr (1.7x revenue), marketing ₹30 Cr, total expenses ₹178 Cr. For Dezerv, payroll is not just overhead; it is part of the advisory-delivery model where senior bankers and relationship managers are the core product. Per the company's individual article, the FY23 parent entity was within ₹4.71 Cr of breakeven; FY25 expanded aggressively beyond that point. The runway figure is not stated in the audit's summary; the funding model depends on continued investor capital.
What sits outside
Employee benefits 1.7x revenue / total expenses ₹178 Cr against ₹66 Cr revenue / FY23 parent was near breakeven
Stable Money
A 15-month runway against the take-rate scaling question.
₹3.58 Cr of retained revenue against a cost base running approximately 14x that figure. Net loss ₹45 Cr; runway approximately 15 months per the company's article. The operating question is whether the 0.34% implied retained-income ratio on reported gross revenue scales with platform throughput or whether the platform needs to capture more of the value chain to close the loss.
What sits outside
₹3.58 Cr retained / cost base ~14x / ~15 months runway / implied retained-income ratio ~0.34% on reported gross revenue
The core insight
One entity deployed cash into a loan book; one into payroll-led advisory expansion; one into subsidising distribution throughput. Three different cash-deployment patterns inside broadly the same category.
The Category-Level Read
What the three FY25 audits show at category level
Indian wealth, fixed-income and investment-platform fintechs structurally differ in how they monetise (lending interest vs advisory fees vs distribution commissions), how they recognise revenue (gross throughput vs retained fee), and how they deploy capital (loan book vs payroll-led advisory vs platform subsidy). The audits report each entity's chosen structure; the structures are not equivalent.
What the three FY25 audits do not show
A like-for-like operating comparison. Cost-to-income ratios cannot be cleanly compared because revenue recognition treatment differs. Per-customer economics (active accounts, AUM per customer, retention, customer-acquisition cost, lifetime value) are not disclosed in any of the three audits at the summary level. The article reports the headline single fact from each filing; the underlying per-customer economics that determine which model is structurally most profitable are not surfaced by the audits.
“One platform's loan book expanded ₹172 Cr in FY25. One spent ₹111 Cr on advisory-delivery payroll. One kept ₹3.58 Cr of ₹104 Cr reported. Same broad category. Three different audit shapes.”
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Read Each Audit
The filing-by-filing breakdown for each company sits in its individual analysis. WintWealth's article covers the operating-cash-absorption-vs-loan-book mirror and the ₹223 Cr implied equity raise. Dezerv's article covers the payroll-vs-revenue ratio and the three-entity group structure. Stable Money's article covers the gross-vs-net revenue treatment and the 0.34% take-rate framing.